Archive: Poetry

‘My mother’s dark hair/an un bound river.’  To celebrate the launch of Wasafiri 107, ‘Tending’ is a new poem on the themes of crisis and recovery by Australian poet Eileen Chong.

A new poem by King Llanza, a poet and environmental researcher from the Philippines, to celebrate the launch of Wasafiri 107 on the twinned themes of crisis and recovery.

A new poem of the sea by Byron Beynon, whose poem ‘A Musician’s Ear’ was published in Wasafiri 105.

An extract from a new sequence of poems on colours and their pigments by Forward Prize shortlisted poet alice hiller, to celebrate Wasafiri 106: the Water issue.

To coincide with Wasafiri 106 – our special issue on the theme of water – a new poem by Aotearoa New Zealand poet Stacey Teague about Hinemoana, the Māori goddess of the sea.

‘Dear Sabrina –’ by Rebecca Baird, shortlisted for the 2020 Queen Mary New Writing Prize for Poetry.

“blacksays” by Joshua Idehen, shortlisted for the 2020 Queen Mary New Writing Prize for Poetry.

‘The history of migration in the UK is also a history of food,’ writes Sean Wai Keung for our ongoing series, Writing Britain Now. Plus, two poems from his debut poetry collection, sikfan glaschu.

A new poem by Wasafiri‘s 2021 Writer-in-Residence, Jennifer Wong.